Tyler Giles
@tyler-giles.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at Wellesley College. Opinions are my own.
Last name pronounced like "smiles" with a "J" sound.
sites.google.com/view/tylergiles/
Last name pronounced like "smiles" with a "J" sound.
sites.google.com/view/tylergiles/
It's a 50% sample of all deaths because, IIRC, they switched up how states sent them the data. Convention is to just scale up any 1972 aggregate rates by 2. I verified for myself one time that this is what the CDC data portal does (wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd8.html)
Compressed Mortality, 1968-1978 Request
wonder.cdc.gov
January 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It's a 50% sample of all deaths because, IIRC, they switched up how states sent them the data. Convention is to just scale up any 1972 aggregate rates by 2. I verified for myself one time that this is what the CDC data portal does (wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd8.html)
